Dateline: Sunday 15 August 2010 at 7:00am
Venue: Chung Ling High School, Penang
Event: The 53rd Penang All Chinese Cross Country (2010年第53届全槟华人越野赛跑)
It was a Beautiful Sunday unlike this time 7 days ago at the Esplanade when we Listened to the Pouring Rain where the Merdeka Run was held. A shower had stopped a couple of hours ago which made the weather conditions even better for the runners and on what better circumstances do we ask for to launch the new name of our runners' group, " i-Run " on this auspicious day in conjunction of the above event.
This event attracted about 700 participants of which about 10% or 70 were from our group which made up of 31 in Men Open, 19 in Men Veteran and 21 in Women. Most of our participants, photographers, helpers were early at the Start to help in the distributions of bib numbers (given on race day).
The race started at scheduled 7:30am and the route were Jalan Ayer Itam - Thean Teik Road - Batu Lancang Lane - Green Lane - Jln Ayer Itam - Ibetson Road - Batu Lancang Lane - Jln Ayer Itam - Chung Ling for a total distance of 7.63km over tar-road (not really a cross-country race as it is called)
Our group performed well generally with the following came out as medal winners:
Men Open
19th Sam Chee Wang
Men Veteran
6th 陈亚真 (Soon) – 32:31
9th Leong Siew Kee – 33:43
14th 孙文明
15th Giam Chong Seng
17th 罗书福
1st 黄姗妮 Sunny Ng – 34:19
2nd 庄丽琴 – 35:53
4th Adeline Tan Man Hua – 37:06
10th 曾伊雯 – 38:29
15th Jenny Wong Hooi Cheow
17th 庄丽慧
18th 颜慧甄
There were also Team categories based on the times of the top 5 finishers, unfortunately our Women Team was beaten by an aggregate of only 1 point to the second place by Forward Sports Club. That was so close yet so far and we salute and congratulate to our team for for their superb performance.
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Thank you Chung Ling Alumni Association Penang for organising this event and we look forward to coming back next year. (Incidentally my 1st participation in this event was way back in 1970 when I represented my school)
Please click here for the photo album of this occasion, courtesy of Mei Ling for which we thank her.
On this day 15 August 2010, " i-Run " is born.
Very well written..Mr Choo :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to i-Run once again...
cheersss...
Thanks a lot Sunny, you are truly "The Number One" :)
ReplyDeleteThanks again for your support
Happy running n cycling....